[John 20:27] Then did Christian again a little revive, and stood up trembling, as at first, before Evangelist. {53} Then Evangelist proceeded, saying, Give more earnest heed to the things that I shall tell thee of.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Then the light phantom seeks not yet any further hiding-place, but, flitting aloft, melts in a dark cloud; and a blast comes down meanwhile and sweeps Turnus through the seas.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

It teaches that wicked conduct involves a future life in this world in suffering and despised creatures, and, accordingly, that one will then be born again in lower castes, or as [pg 460] a woman, or as a brute, as Pariah or Tschandala, as a leper, or as a crocodile, and so forth.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as I was going to bed, Desarmoises came and asked me to lend him twelve louis.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Again this fascinating charmer was plunged into my interior with the same lascivious results and again I was rewarded for my compliance by the full enjoyment of his delicious charms, and after we had each thus attained again to the height of felicity we fell asleep locked in a close embrace.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

[The facts contained in the above short notices are taken chiefly from Lübker’s Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums , and the very copious and elaborate Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft , edited by Pauly.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

The crests of Vivian ["A demi-hussar of the 18th Regiment, holding in his right hand a sabre, and in his left a pennon flying to the sinister gules, and inscribed in gold letters, 'Croix d'Orade,' issuant from a bridge of one arch, embattled, and at each end a tower"], and Macgregor ["two brass guns in saltire in front of a demi-Highlander armed with his broadsword, pistols, and with a target, thereon the family arms of Macgregor," viz.: "Argent: a sword in bend dexter azure, and an oak-tree eradicated in bend sinister proper, in the dexter chief an antique crown gules, and upon an escroll surmounting the crest the motto, 'E'en do and spare not'"] are typical of many crests of augmentation and quasi-augmentation granted in the early part of the nineteenth century.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I believe there is no other State besides that of North Carolina in which different conditions are applied to the voting for the Senate and the electing the House of Representatives.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"I'm very sorry," said Dorothy, compassionately; "and are you really going to be made into a pie?"
— from The Admiral's Caravan by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Carryl

'If women did not regard each other's advances with so much suspicion,' Charlotte proceeded emphatically, 'if they did not look upon every one of a slightly different class as an impossible person to be avoided, they would make a much better show in the fight for independent existence.
— from The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth Von Arnim

For, exclusively as a consequence of this susceptibility to outward impressions having enhanced itself in animals proportionately to their requirements till it has reached the point where a nervous system and a brain become necessary, does consciousness arise as a function of that brain, and in it the objective world, whose forms (Time, Space, Causality) are the way in which that function is performed.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The story of the saints of Triana is legendary; but it is no doubt credited as actual history among the devout of the city.
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

The moonbeams, at intervals darkened by the drifting clouds and again pouring gloriously forth, streamed in long threads of silver through the shattered walls; while [Pg 339] the shaggy forest in the back-ground, tossing its heavy branches against the troubled sky, [90] roared forth a deep chorus to the storm.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

7 s. 6 d. Coronal, A. A New Anthology.
— from The Pier-Glass by Robert Graves

Take the inner differential casing apart and draw the axle shaft out.
— from Ford Manual for Owners and Operators of Ford Cars and Trucks (1919) by Ford Motor Company

He that will examine his complex idea of gold, will find several of its ideas that make it up to be only powers; as the power of being melted, but of not spending itself in the fire; of being dissolved in AQUA REGIA, are ideas as necessary to make up our complex idea of gold, as its colour and weight: which, if duly considered, are also nothing but different powers.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke